Building The MareNostrum COTS Supercomputer

Building The MareNostrum COTS Supercomputer 187

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 16, 2005 @04:40AM from the available-at-every-pharmacy dept.

karvind writes "IBM Power Architecture Community Newsletter has a story about making a supercomputer (Number 4 on top 500 list) from easily available components (like BladeCenter and TotalStorage servers, 970FX PowerPC processors, and Linux 2.6). A joint venture between IBM and the Spanish government, it is named MareNostrum: the Latin term meaning 'our sea.' Peaking at 40 TFlops, the beast consists of 2,282 IBM eServer BladeCenter JS20 blade servers housed in 163 BladeCenter chassis, 4,564 64-bit IBM PowerPC 970FX processors, and 140 TB of IBM TotalStorage DS4100 storage servers."

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Humans are so behind the curve (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday February 16, 2005 @04:47AM (#11686940)

I am an African Grey parrot, and I can tell you that while you humans are celebrating this achievement, I and my fellow Greys are laughing at you. Supercomputers are old news to us; in fact, one of my friends solved the halting problem while taking a crap the other day. Seriously, people, we like you 'cause you feed us, but leave this kind of stuff to us.

(I tried to register an account but /. thought my user name was too long)

It's all fine (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday February 16, 2005 @04:48AM (#11686941)

but does it run Linux? Oh crap, never mind.

Top 500? (Score:4, Funny)

by Ubi_NL ( 313657 ) writes: <joris.benschop@g ... Ecom minus punct> on Wednesday February 16, 2005 @04:51AM (#11686956) Journal

(Number 4 on top 500 list)
...while being Number 6 on top 300 list, and Number 65 on top 2000 list.

This is like those CDs that have 'best of the Top40' and not contain the top10 list of that

Cue the lame gags... (Score:1, Funny)

by Sime208 ( 709155 ) writes: on Wednesday February 16, 2005 @05:12AM (#11687007)

...about it still not being sufficient to catalogue ones porn collection.

War in the age of information warfare (Score:5, Funny)

by flopsy mopsalon ( 635863 ) writes: on Wednesday February 16, 2005 @05:16AM (#11687012)

I happened to look at the Top 500 supercomputers [top500.org] site and I couln't help noticing out of the top 5 supercomputers almost half are in non-US countries like Spain and Japan. This is not to beat some kind of patriot act drum. Instead, it got me to thinking.

With supercomputing powers now avaible to any country or group with a few readily available components, it is only a matter of time before these supercomputing powers may be used by a rogue state [korea-dpr.com] or radical group to cause havoc among electronic communications using methods like denial of service attacks, spyware, and crapflooding message boards.

I think it is high time the nations of the world put their heads together and addressed this issue. For example, I don't think the US Federal Government even has any cabinet-level position like Secretary of Information Technology or something like that. When are they going to get with the times? It will probably take another terrorist attack or something.

Sounds like (Score:5, Funny)

by jim_v2000 ( 818799 ) writes: on Wednesday February 16, 2005 @05:20AM (#11687021)

Peaking at 40 TFlops, the beast consists of 2,282 IBM eServer BladeCenter JS20 blade servers housed in 163 BladeCenter chassis, 4,564 64-bit IBM PowerPC 970FX processors, and 140 TB of IBM TotalStorage DS4100 storage servers.

Sounds like the specs of Microsoft's Xbox 3...

In other news, SHA1 was broken... (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday February 16, 2005 @05:33AM (#11687054)

Peaking at 40 TFlops, the beast consists of 2,282 IBM eServer BladeCenter JS20 blade servers housed in 163 BladeCenter chassis, 4,564 64-bit IBM PowerPC 970FX processors, and 140 TB of IBM TotalStorage DS4100 storage servers.
It's just the thing to find SHA1 collisions of ISO images in 2^56 operations...

Well yeah,... (Score:2, Funny)

by Create an Account ( 841457 ) writes: on Wednesday February 16, 2005 @05:57AM (#11687135)

...but how fast can it open Photoshop CS?

DOES THAT COME IN A DESKTOP? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday February 16, 2005 @06:13AM (#11687172)

REALY, DOES IT????

But really... (Score:2, Funny)

by nicc777 ( 614519 ) writes: on Wednesday February 16, 2005 @06:39AM (#11687243) Homepage Journal

...does it have an AGP slot?

Re:IBM eServers? (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Wednesday February 16, 2005 @07:02AM (#11687291)

I'm a republican man, porn in Barcelona ...

umm ... you mean there's Republican porn over there? yuck! ... with all my parents from Barcelona

Really? ALL of them, no kidding ... well, there goes one more failed genetic experiment. Better luck next time!

Mare Nostrum (Score:3, Funny)

by woah ( 781250 ) writes: on Wednesday February 16, 2005 @07:40AM (#11687366)

Mare Nostrum is Latin for "our sea"?
But I thought it was Ouray Easay!
What's going on?
This is all so confusing! I need to take a nap.

Re:Imagine... (Score:2, Funny)

by Ray Alloc ( 835739 ) writes: on Wednesday February 16, 2005 @07:50AM (#11687409)

You'll notice the "redundant" moderation, which is a perfect fit, given the context :-)

Re:Supercomputer = Pile of computers? (Score:2, Funny)

by dsevilla ( 859910 ) writes: <dsevilla@ditec.um.es> on Wednesday February 16, 2005 @07:52AM (#11687413) Homepage

Yeah, that's the point. Also, they don't even do any advance in programming models. Just MPI/PVM with my old friend fortran or C.
Haha, but the funny thing is that they'll end doing high performance computing based on Web Services!!
Best regards,
diego.

Re:Humans are so behind the curve (Score:3, Funny)

by EvilTwinSkippy ( 112490 ) writes: <{yoda} {at} {etoyoc.com}> on Wednesday February 16, 2005 @08:26AM (#11687516) Homepage Journal

(I tried to register an account but /. thought my user name was too long)
What kind of troll would parrot back such a hackneyed old line.

Re:Humans are so behind the curve (Score:3, Funny)

by TeknoHog ( 164938 ) writes: on Wednesday February 16, 2005 @10:05AM (#11688065) Homepage Journal

Are you an African or European par... oh crap, nevermind.

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Humans are so behind the curve (Score:5, Funny)

It's all fine (Score:5, Funny)

Top 500? (Score:4, Funny)

Cue the lame gags... (Score:1, Funny)

War in the age of information warfare (Score:5, Funny)

Sounds like (Score:5, Funny)

In other news, SHA1 was broken... (Score:2, Funny)

Well yeah,... (Score:2, Funny)

DOES THAT COME IN A DESKTOP? (Score:1, Funny)

But really... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:IBM eServers? (Score:1, Funny)

Mare Nostrum (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Imagine... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Supercomputer = Pile of computers? (Score:2, Funny)

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Re:Humans are so behind the curve (Score:3, Funny)

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